This Week in Science : Turning dead spiders into robots

This Week in Science : Turning dead spiders into robots

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However you might feel about spiders, they can be very useful creatures... even when they're dead. City's Kurtis Doering tells us about a new effort to turn euthanized wolf spiders into robotic grabbing tools.

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